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The 47 pages that link to Emancipation Proclamation, each with the reason it gives.

• Frederick DouglassRelated: Douglass pressed Lincoln to make emancipation a Union war aim and urged Black men to enlist.

• Abraham LincolnRelated: Lincoln issued it as a wartime measure that made emancipation a Union objective.

• Confederate States of AmericaRelated: It recast the Union war effort and weakened the Confederacy's claim to international recognition.

• SharecroppingRelated: Emancipation changed the labor system that Southern landowners sought to replace with crop-sharing contracts.

• Thirteenth Amendment to the United States ConstitutionRelated: It advanced wartime emancipation but did not abolish slavery everywhere.

• Battle of AntietamRelated: Lincoln announced it after the battle, presenting the Union’s war aims as including emancipation.

• JuneteenthRelated: It preceded the Galveston announcement but did not immediately end slavery everywhere.

• Underground RailroadRelated: Wartime emancipation transformed the conditions that had made clandestine escape necessary.

• Freedmen's BureauRelated: Emancipation created urgent needs for aid and institution-building that the Bureau later addressed.

• Convict leasingRelated: Emancipation preceded the postwar legal and labor systems that leasing helped shape.

• Anaconda PlanRelated: As the war continued, Union policy expanded beyond military restoration toward emancipation.

• George B. McClellanRelated: The proclamation sharpened the political divide between Lincoln’s wartime policy and Democratic opposition in 1864.

• Union ArmyRelated: It made destruction of slavery an explicit Union war aim and enabled broader Black enlistment.

• Army of the PotomacRelated: Antietam gave Lincoln the military opportunity to issue its preliminary announcement.

• Reparations for slaveryRelated: It ended slavery in those areas without providing formerly enslaved people compensation or land.

• The LiberatorRelated: Wartime emancipation advanced the cause the newspaper had advocated for decades.

• United States Colored TroopsRelated: It authorized the enlistment of Black men into Union forces as the war’s aims expanded.

• Gettysburg CampaignRelated: The campaign unfolded amid the war’s growing focus on slavery and Union policy.

• Cotton KingdomRelated: It weakened slavery in the Confederacy, striking at the region’s labor system.

• John Hope FranklinRelated: Franklin placed emancipation within the wider history of Black freedom and its limits.

• Antebellum SouthRelated: It made destruction of slavery an explicit Union war aim in Confederate-held territory.

• Deep SouthRelated: It made abolition a Union war aim and transformed the status of enslaved people in the Deep South.

• Henry Ward BeecherRelated: Beecher publicly defended emancipation as the war’s purpose expanded beyond preserving the Union.

• Second Battle of Bull RunRelated: Lincoln announced the preliminary proclamation after Antietam, following the campaign that began with Lee’s victory.

• Assassination of Abraham LincolnRelated: Booth’s opposition to emancipation was part of his hostility toward Lincoln.

• Battle of Fort SumterRelated: The war that began at Sumter eventually became a struggle that included emancipation.

• Theodore Dwight WeldRelated: It marked a wartime federal step toward abolition, a goal Weld had advocated for decades.

• Nat LoveRelated: It marks the wartime context of Love’s childhood, though emancipation became nationwide through the Thirteenth Amendment.

• History of MissouriRelated: It did not free enslaved people in loyal Missouri, leaving emancipation there to state action and the Thirteenth Amendment.

• T. Thomas FortuneRelated: Fortune was born into slavery before emancipation transformed his family’s legal status.